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The nuclear accident at Chernobyl: Immediate and further consequences

Romanian Journal of Military Medicine, 2021
The accident at Chernobyl occurred in April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Union. The incident occurred during a scheduled safety test. A combination of inherent reactor design flaws and operators’ mistakes resulted in reactor’s No.4 disaster and the emission of a large quantity of radiation. The immediate actions involved the fire
Symeon Naoum, Vasileios Spyropoulos
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BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE GREATEST NUCLEAR DISASTERS: WHAT IS KNOWN SO FAR AND WHAT ARE THE PROSPECTS? [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
The high potential of nuclear power to combat climate change and support sustainable development plays a critical role in achieving the goal of the Paris Agreement.
M. Batur, R. M. Alkan
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Radiation monitoring using imaging plate technology: A case study of leaves affected by the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and JCO criticality accidents [PDF]

Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection, 2006
This paper describes the use of a photostimulable phosphor screen imaging technique to detect radioactive contamination in the leaves of wormwood (Artemisia vulgaris L) and fern (Dryopteris filix-max CL.
Kimura Shinzo, Sahoo Sarata K., Shiraishi Kunio, Watanabe Yoshito, Ban-Nai Tadaaki, Los Ivan P., Korzun Vitaly N., Tsygankov Nikolay Y., Zamostyan Pavlo V., Shevchuk Valery E.   +9 more
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Carcinoma of the stomach following the Chernobyl nuclear accident

European Journal of Cancer, 1997
Medical consequences of many nuclear accidents on humans are well studied, but the results pertaining to gastric cancer patients who were exposed to radiation as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear accident have not been analysed. In this study, the outcome of the surgical treatment of 68 gastric cancer patients who were exposed to radiation as a result ...
I B, Shchepotin, V L, Valetsky, V A, Chorny, M, Shabahang, R J, Nauta, R R, Buras, S R, Evans   +6 more
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The peculiarities of formation of circulatory system pathology of evacuated adult population exposed to ionizing radiation on thyroid gland after the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant [PDF]

Medičnì Perspektivi, 2014
The aim of the research - analysis of the structure and dynamics of the morbidity among eva¬cuated population, the peculiarities of pathogenesis of the most widespread forms of circulatory system (CS) pathology in the remote period after the accident at ...
Kapustinskaia O.A.
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LOW AND MEAN RADIATION DOSES IMPACT ON THE CEREBRAL TRACTS STRUCTURE OF THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT LIQUIDATORS IN THE REMOTE PERIOD (BASED ON ROUTINE AND DIFFUSION-TENSOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DATA)

Радиационная гигиена, 2018
To evaluate correlation between brain structural damages and radiation exposure level for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident liquidators, routine and diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging methods are efficient to visualize and evaluate ...
I. M. Levashkina, S. S. Aleksanin, S. V. Serebryakova, T. G. Gribanova   +3 more
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The Impact of Chernobyl on Health and Labour Market Performance in the Ukraine [PDF]

Using longitudinal data from the Ukraine we examine the extent of any long-lasting effects of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl disaster on the health and labour market performance of the adult workforce.
Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth
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Backgrounds of origin and character of structural changes in testicles of coalminers of Donbass region

Patologìâ, 2014
Introduction. For the verification of Chernobyl factor that influences the structure of testicles of Chernobyl accident liquidators that reside in Donbass region it is necessary to establish pre-existing morphological changes due to harmful work ...
Yu. V. Danilov, T. I. Shevchenko, K. V. Motkov   +2 more
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German energy market fallout from the Japanese earthquake [PDF]

, 2013
The German response to the Fukushima nuclear power plant incident was possibly the most significant change of policy towards nuclear power outside Japan, leading to a sudden and very significant shift in the underlying power generation structure in ...
Luigi Grossi, Waterson, Michael, Grossi L., Waterson M., Grossi, Luigi, Michael Waterson   +5 more
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Demonstrating the undermining of science and health policy after the Fukushima nuclear accident by applying the Toolkit for detecting misused epidemiological methods

Environmental Health, 2022
It is well known that science can be misused to hinder the resolution (i.e., the elimination and/or control) of a health problem. To recognize distorted and misapplied epidemiological science, a 33-item “Toolkit for detecting misused epidemiological ...
Toshihide Tsuda, Yumiko Miyano, Eiji Yamamoto   +2 more
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